Best budget router for VPN traffic routing?

I’m looking for a budget router that will let me install a VPN (or multiple) and route certain traffic to certain VPNs, and some traffic through no VPN, all automatically. Ideally I’d like to have all traffic go to some VPN in Europe, some traffic go to the UK (for some UK websites), some traffic go to a VPN in Taiwan and some traffic go through my plain internet with no VPN.

Are there any routers that can easily do this? I’m looking for something reasonably priced.

Thanks

Maybe using Pfsense … which runs on regular x86 hardware so you could run it in a VM.

Or Openwrt using VPN policy routing. Openwrt can also run on x86 or on many budget routers.

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Ideally I’m looking for a router which has this functionality built in. Years ago I saw a gaming router that could do this on a Linus Tech Tips video but now searching for something similar I can’t find anything :frowning:

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My old budget Asus router could do at least one VPN (but maybe not different VPNs for different traffic).

If that is good enough, maybe check out which models can do it:

https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1008713/

Budget routers have a budget chip in them. The speed of VPN traffic will be limited by compute power. Usually those don’t supports AES instruction set on the CPU.

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